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Robust Performance of Culture, qPCR, and Genomic Approaches for Shigella Serotyping in a Pediatric Surveillance Cohort

2026-01-06 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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BackgroundShigella causes severe diarrheal disease, and S. flexneri and S. sonnei are the targets for multivalent vaccine development. Culture-based agglutination has been the gold standard for serotyping, but it is limited by logistics, subjectivity, and the availability of antisera for emerging serotypes. Newer methods, including a qPCR-based approach and whole-genome sequencing offer alternatives, but their performance in Shigella endemic populations are not well documented. MethodsShigella ...

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